News & Events – THEORY GROUP

2021: Alex Pettitt has moved to take up an Assistant Professor position at California State University, Sacramento in the USA.
2020: Ngan Nguyen graduated from our PhD program, which was also joint-hosted at JAXA in Tokyo.
2019: Shohei Ishiki graduated from our PhD program and moves on to a position at Bridgestone.
2018: Hikari Shirakata graduated from our PhD program, she will soon start a position at The Technical Research Center, Tadano Ltd.
2017: Kazuhiro Shima graduated from our PhD program and will take up a postdoctoral researcher position at the Kyoto theoretical astrophysics group.
2016: Yusuke Fujimoto graduated from our PhD program and will soon take up a postdoc position at ANU in Canberra.
2016: Elizabeth Tasker has moved to JAXA in Tokyo.
2016: Alex Pettitt has been made an Assistant Professor in the group, in a post joint-hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of Higher Education.

Activities that happen regularly in the group

Something slightly less regular

Event Information:

Past workshops and meeting hosted in the department

- Annual meeting of Astronomical Society of Japan
  September 11th-13th, 2017
  National meeting of the Astronomical Society of Japan, with talks from a wide range of disciplines over three days.

- The Impact of Galactic Structure on Star Formation
  February 16th-21st, 2014
  Hokkaido hosted an international conference focussed on how the galaxy morphology and evolution can impact its resultant star formation.

- NAOJ Workshop, 2013
  January 26th-28th, 2013
  Hokkaido hosted an NAOJ workshop focussing on science with ALMA in celebration of Asao Habe’s 60th birthday. (Website in Japanese only)

- The Enzo User Workshop, 2012
  May 17th-18th, 2012
  A Hokkaido hosted workshop for new users for the astrophysical, hydrodynamics code, Enzo.